May 5, 2004, We've been spending the blood; here comes the treasure
Feliz Cinco de Mayo, everybody (especially any readers named either Cinco or Mayo). While I'm tempted to comment on the Disney Company's yanking of a Michael Moore film called "Fahrenheit 911" in which Mr. Moore addresses numerous connections between Saudis and the Bush family, and evidently, Florida Governor and Bush-dynasty-heir-apparent JEB Bush threatened to yank some key tax breaks to Disney World if the Disney Company released the film, I kind of don't like Michael Moore because he does something that no decent documentarian or journalist would ever do: he often makes up shit. (I do that too from time to time, of course, but I don't have an Oscar for nonfiction.) But hey-- by this time next year, assuming the Bush dynasty manages to get enough Diebold machines installed in enough states and deprives enough citizens of the vote by pretending they are "criminals" (or "attempted voting while Black") , criticizing any member of the Bush family will be a crime. In 3 years, a likely death penalty offense. Recall how even Paul Bremer, who candidly criticized the Bush Administration for its lack of seriousness on terrorism in February 2001, had to submit himself to reeducation camp, and apologize for his errors. Maoism meets Mayberry, boys and girls. Another cultural revolution, where culture is again the loser. God help us; if He's not too busy talking to the President, of course. Remember when we used to have a free country that wasn't a sick joke? It was just over three years ago. But I digress...
No, I actually wanted to talk about the latest appropriation request to Congress- for another $50 billion (phrased as "$25 billion now, $25 billion after the election). Obviously, we've been spending money as fast as we've been getting soldiers killed. Tom de Lay notes that the money will be for "military pay", so "no one will have a problem with it". Um... we'll just see who has a problem with it. WE KNOW that our troops are pathetically ill-compensated and ill-equipped, largely because their salaries are too meager to pay the kind of kickbacks that get the attention of Tom deLay (when will be be indicted already?) and the Bush Banditti-- in short, a vicious cycle. Hence, WE KNOW the money is to pay more contract torturers ("Torture Gate"?), and to pour down the rat holes of Halliburton and Bechtel. Even the Bush Administration couldn't hide it until after the election-- having to ask for something.
See, the $87 billion figure Bush first asked for (which everyone knew represented some finite amount of time that would be less than the total cost of the Iraq adventure) was a shockingly high figure, for what was promised as a limited cakewalk where we would be welcomed with flowers, because some sick fucks believed convicted-felon-and-likely-next-Iraqi-dictator Ahmed Chalabi, even though, like George W. Bush himself, he hadn't actually had an honest accomplishment in his entire life. The problem is, those sick fucks are STILL making decisions.
Well, its a tough one. The war kind of has to be funded; Congress, when Democrats controlled the senate, gave the President a blank check. Now, he's simply presenting another draft. The ball has already been dropped. I don't know even what to suggest.
Yes I do.
Not a dime unless the President presents his plan for a complete pullout of all American troops from Iraq not part of a legitimately multinational contingent under United Nations (not United States or NATO) command before the end of the year. (Under no circumstances shall said American contingent in Iraq under UN command exceed the size of our contingent in Afghanistan, or see above re "not a dime").
Of course, that would involve Congress doing its damned job. Needn't worry about that.
Comments
Michael Moore will make many many millions due to Disney giving him all that publicity. Yes, Moore has a terrible record for accuracy; he is to accuracy on the left with Rush is to accuracy on the right. But he'll make HUGE bucks on this next film thanks to Mickey Mouse.
Posted by Joe Gandelman at May 6, 2004 07:58 AM
Miramax says that it told him a year ago that Disney would not let them distibute the film and that he needed to find another distributor. Moore is holding off on that (which won't be a problem) simply to stir up controversy about the film in the hope it will increase box office revenues. All the more dough for his sad No Chow Left Behind act.
Posted by Lawrence at May 6, 2004 10:54 PM
Guys. Aren't you upset about the government involvement in this? You guys are readers of the Talking Dog, that is, most likely liberals, who should only attack those on the right. C'mon, get with the program.
Posted by The Obvious One at May 7, 2004 01:01 PM
Hey-- Obvious One! This is a First Amendment Zone. Right or left mean a lot less here than in some other places (besides-- where were you when I was in the running for "best NON-LIBERAL blog"? Huh?)
I suppose many readers are "liberals" who enjoy the Bush bashing. (Hell, if it weren't for the Bush bashing, I'd have a LOT less to say!!! BTW, although the sainted Al Gore and the sainted John McCain, of course, walk on water, I do not hold prominent Democrats Bill Clinton or John Kerry in any particular high regard.)
I do regard credibility and integrity as just a LITTLE BIT more important than pure partisanship. Bullshitters and fakers of the left are just as abhorrent to me as those on the right. (I'm not Mickey Kaus, so that ANY error no matter how minor by ANYONE on the left is OH SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than even the most heinous crime committed by those on the right-- my view is simply "an asshole is an asshole"-- right or left). Right now, the "right" (as if Bush resembles even Republicans excepting maybe McKinley or Harding) holds the mantle of leadership, and gets the attention. Frankly, our current government is IMHO doing a piss poor job in a lot of things-- not just in policy, but as we see in Iraq, in execution. AND THAT PISSES ME OFF TOO.
But Michael Moore-- a man (IIRC) fired from "Mother Jones" at one time for... you got it... MAKING SHIT UP... is not someone I admire either. So if my readership has something to say about Mr. Moore-- a man who demeans and diminishes "the left" by claiming to be a member of it-- I say "bring it on".
Posted by the talking dog at May 7, 2004 04:09 PM
Moore is a tool of the left, whether or not he makes stuff up. Leave him alone so he can do his damage. W doesn't fight fair, assuming he can't preempt the fight. Why should Moore?
Posted by The Obvious One at May 7, 2004 05:04 PM
I would dearly love to hear what Queen Noor (née Lisa Halaby, a nice american girl before she married the late king of Jordan) has to say about Chalabi, who fled her adopted country ahead of an indictment for large scale theft.
I'd particulary love to hear what she has to say about his allegations that her late husband set him up because he was in bed with Saddam Hussein.
Yes, this is something I would enjoy seeing on television.
On Sixty Minutes, perhaps.
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